Make Yourself Comfortable

Performance and Soft Sculpture by Zibby Jahns

Photo and Video by Sarrah Danziger

Three hour performance where I carried a 70 pound silk sculpture stuffed with discarded couch stuffing around an abandoned IBM Facility in Kingston, NY November 2021

Make Yourself Comfortable.

More people died of overdoses than Covid in 2021. Overwhelming evidence demonstrates that loss of working-class jobs corresponds to these deaths. I am interested in building from the material remains of these craft practices that once gave a sense of purpose to peoples lives. The starkness of so-called New England has stripped my sculptural work down to raw materials and minimalist forms that engage in dialogue with the abandoned architecture of lost industry and institutions of art to process the staggering rates of overdose deaths that have crippled this place and my own community.


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